# 95% cheaper than traditional cloud; 1,000-1,500 providers coming soon

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-09-08
- **Theme:** Crypto & DePIN — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - September 7th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:42:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row18GzCS5w&t=2542s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/crypto-depin/2022-09-08-95-cheaper-than-traditional-cloud-1-000-1-500-prov-guwl/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "95% cheaper than traditional cloud; 1,000-1,500 providers coming soon," Akash Weekly - September 7th 2022 (Akash Network), 8 Sept 2022, 00:42:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row18GzCS5w&t=2542s

## Quote — verbatim

> Akash is still like 95 percent cheaper than your traditional cloud. With current distribution of like 50 providers or so, it's very very distributed across the globe, and with provider incentives that we're working on, we're going to expect at least 1000 to 1500 providers very soon.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering how fiat payments affect AKT; quantified cost claim plus a provider-growth forecast tied to upcoming incentives.